Luca Giordano was born in Naples on 18 October 1634, the son of Antonio Giordano and Isabella Imparato. According to Maria Giovanna Sarti, his father was a picture dealer of Puglian origin and also a modest painter, and seems to have introduced him early to the practical world of painting. Although the sources report anContinue reading “Luca Giordano (1634–1705) at the Casón del Buen Retiro: The Alegoría del Toisón de Oro and the Last Habsburg Court”
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Meiffren Conte (c. 1630–1705) and the splendour of still life
Meiffren Conte and the splendour of still life Meiffren Conte, also found as Comte, Le Conte or Lecointe, was born in Marseille around 1630 and died there in 1705. He belongs to a later seventeenth-century world in which still life was no longer confined to modest arrangements of fruit, flowers or household objects. In hisContinue reading “Meiffren Conte (c. 1630–1705) and the splendour of still life”
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